France will decide "
in the next few days if not the next few hours
" whether it is "
necessary
" to suspend flights from South Africa, after the discovery of a new variant of Covid-19, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said Friday, November 26.
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"
There are ongoing meetings, work in progress, and in the next few days if not the next few hours, we will see a little more clearly and we will obviously make decisions if necessary
", a he indicated on BFMTV / RMC, while the ban on these flights, proposed by the European Commission, is already applied by Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy.
“
Since there were countries where there was a significant circulation of the virus and a variant that worried us, we have always taken protective measures
,” added Gabriel Attal. He recalled that "
relatively little is known at the moment
" about this variant. So at this stage, "
we are collecting information at this very moment
," he said, specifying that France is in contact with the World Health Organization (WHO) and that he has himself. same interview with the Directorate General of Health (DGS) Thursday evening. He recalled that France had "
greatly developed
" the sequencing of the virus and confirmed that "
the Delta variant is today '
hui almost exclusively in circulation ”on French territory.
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